The Day the World Ended

nickmccabe 🙁 RT @jennispinner 2000yrs ago we lived in tents and had to catch/kill our food. Now, we curl up into the fetal position when Gmail’s down.

I’m sure you already know Gmail went down today. Well, to be precise, the web interface went down. IMAP, POP3, and the API remained available, however users who hadn’t enabled access for the former 2 options (such as myself) found themselves cut off from all access to their Gmail. Many of us rely on Gmail for our work, so it was more than a nuisance for us.

I spent the downtime with half an eye on a live Twitter feed for all things Gmail. Some of what came through was amusing:

All-in-all, the Twitter feed kept me amused for a while as I did other things. Of course, as my “top priority” item at the time requires an e-mail before it can proceed (which I still haven’t gotten, since the outage prevented the questions I’m awaiting answers for going out until after business hours for my customer), I had to occupy my time with lower-priority things. Still awaiting the official word from Google on what actually happened, but at least service is restored.

mystykalkut Ca arrive une fois par an, mais c’est toujours quand t’as une piece jointe super importante a recuperer que Gmail… http://bit.ly/K9HdX
[It happens once a year, but it’s always when you have a super important attachment to get that Gmail does its little “Server Error” Translation from French by myself; note that I translated the full text from the bit.ly link.]

theeKENye so gmail is not working, civilization is crumbling before us!!!!

nickmccabe 🙁 RT @jennispinner 2000yrs ago we lived in tents and had to catch/kill our food. Now, we curl up into the fetal position when Gmail’s down.